Tent nail
A tent nail is an anchor pin when camping . Often it is wrongly called like its "big brother" tent peg . The terms linen, rope or tension nails are also common.
shape
Tent nails are mostly simple 15 to 25 cm long steel pins or sometimes elaborately manufactured hollow aluminum pins, which are usually kinked or curved at the top as steel pins and merge into a thickened head as aluminum pins. Your "big brother" is the peg , which consists of a folded flat sheet steel, a cast aluminum profile or a plastic profile. In the professional sector, so-called pegs are used to fasten larger objects . These are similar to the tent nail, but are significantly longer, more stable and suitable for larger tensile loads.
Advantages and disadvantages
Tent nails made of steel are now the standard means of securing tent lines and are part of the scope of delivery of practically all camping tents. This can be explained with the low weight and size, but above all with the significantly lower manufacturing costs. In contrast, tent nails made of aluminum belong to the higher quality and more expensive anchoring pins.
Due to its round profile, a tent nail can turn in the ground under wind load , so that the line jumps off the tent nail. The special head of the aluminum nail prevents this. In addition, steel nails are not very kink-resistant , so that they often kink when hammered into the ground and can then hardly be used or have to be laboriously bent back. Due to their smaller surface, they also hold less in the ground and can be pulled out of the ground more easily with higher wind loads; this generally also applies to those made of aluminum. A disadvantage that can be compensated for by a larger diameter and a larger length. On the other hand, this is also an advantage, as the tent nail, regardless of the material and type, can be installed in loose soil without tools ( hammer ) and can also be pulled out more easily.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tent nail and pitching the tent. wissenswertes.at, accessed on March 21, 2016 .